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Thanks for that.

I would try the online chat with an agent.

Login early if you can, think its open from 7AM.

Still loads of spaces available in drive-up. Might be a glitch on the booking website maybe.

What’s the story with EI’s winter schedule? Destinations like Malaga and Tenerife were always bookable by now each summer for December/January. Lanzarote is bookable. Are they really going to drop Malaga and Tenerife? Seems like something is up.

Anyone who goes to Berlin regularly, does it make more sense to fly to Frankfurt and then connect to Berlin with Lufthansa, or would I be better off going LHR / AMS with BA or KLM?

The train is 5hrs form frankfurt, flight is 1.5. But a few weeks ago when I was on the train in germany they were delayed and jammed with their 9 euro thing.

Such a pain in the backside the amount of connecting needed for europe, it wastes a lot of time for short trips like conferences. I need to go to hamburg, hannover and munich in the next 6 months, and the only German airport served from cork is frankfurt 3 days a week.

Honestly, I'd go through AMS with KLM. Even with the current troubles, the KLM hub operation at Amsterdam is still one of the smoothest in Europe, helped of course by the fact that everything is in one terminal building. Just make sure you plan a 2 hour transfer window to account for any hiccups or delays. I used to do this all the time when visiting my parents and am even doing so nowadays for business trips.

When it comes to taking the train from Frankfurt to Berlin, you'll need to keep in mind that the train you need might not actually depart from Frankfurt Airport train station but from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, the central railway station, so you'd need to get your luggage, catch an S-Bahn to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and then catch the train to Berlin.

Well I got refunded for my cancelled flight but nothing regarding compensation for cancellation on short notice. I take it this could take a while?

When should we know full winter schedule for Cork airport? Mainly looking are Air France continuing the CDG route or is just Vueling to Orly for the winter?

It's a very nice but I feel very long and unlikely bucketlist.

I think we can stay on the optimistic side there with regard to JFK and other East Coast US airports, the runway length is becoming less of an issue in that regard with the operation of The 737 Max and the A321 LR

I believe it is only a matter of time now and I very much that it will be an Aer Lingus service as they are now Dublin centric.

Surely and logically if that was indeed the case then why aren't the DAA making a case for a runway extension, obviously the usual Dublin Airport favoritism aside of course.

Norwegian managed the Providence route with the 737 Max and before that the 737 800, I am not sure of course if there were load limitations with the 800.

From what I heard it’s seasonal, the new aircraft could operate without restrictions in the summer but would be restricted in the winter months

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I don't care much about transatlantic from cork tbh. Perfectly happy to go to Shannon for that, especially with pre-clearance. It's only an hour or so up the road, and most importantly, isn't Dublin. :)

Just some bog standard European routes would be fantastic. It's hard to make out the Cork schedule from the outside, but I get the impression when I go through the airport that maybe 70% of the regularly scheduled flights are UK?

The swiss flights are really patchy, here and there. Sometimes it's there, then it's gone again. Same for Rome. Can't get to any Scandinavian city , or even Berlin, anywhere in Belgium. I go to antwerp a few times a year, I've tried it by train from Schipol, hired a car and drove a few hours across the border. It's awkward for planning work either way because you have to get past The Hague and the traffic there is painful. Just normal working European business hubs would be nice, nothing exotic.

Munich was definitely served. Quite frequently at one point, before Aer Dublin reduced the frequency to twice a week and eventually killed it completely. I think, rather than simply focusing on destinations, the focus should be to attract more airlines. Aer Dublin simply cannot be trusted by any airport outside the pale and Ryanair isn't the most reliable business partner either, so getting more carriers is the only way for Cork to grow reliably. I'd personally love to see the likes of SAS, Austrian Airlines, LOT, Eurowings or ITA Airways start serving the airport, though the latter in particular seems unlikely.

As for transatlantic, I remember someone publishing some financial information from Norwegian in this thread in 2018 or 2019 that showed that the Cork-Providence route was actually the only Irish route that was profitable for Norwegian, so the business potential is definitely there. If an airline can tap into that potential and route it via a US east coast hub, such as Delta with their Boston hub, or United with their Newark operation, both of which should be reachable from Cork with reserves, then I can see it working out.

Heathrow, Stansted and Amsterdam are not far off 50% of the pax for Cork combined. Adding another major hub/destination/inbound tourism driver is what’s really going to drive growth in Cork. CDG, Frankfurt, Geneva or other potentials like Madrid or Istanbul are not going to deliver the sort of year round daily service that we see in the big three. JFK, Newark and Logan all could, at least in theory. The other European city destinations are all going to be two or three flights per week max and probably seasonal, that’s not to say that they don’t all add up but you can see why there is a big spotlight on the East Coast hubs.

Agree those 3 routes are the main business.Madrid or Lisbon could have the potential to be year around albeit on a reduced service during winter months. Large numbers of south americans here either working or studying so link these hubs would be good for them. Let alone the numbers of spanish here. Think it could be possible. A go study of the next batch of census results next april should provide more information in this area.

Airport also needs better links to Germany. Would also help if airlines confirmed their schedules a few weeks earlier. Many people start planning summer holidays in jan but often summer schedules are announced a bit later

Shannon go to Budapest so that one is partially covered I guess. Vienna would be nice.

Extra frequency on Amsterdam with KLM, Frankfurt with Lufthansa and Zurich with Swiss would be the only way to go I think myself. At least then you can get to most places.